Secret Lives is a 1932 comedy novel by the British writer E. F. Benson, best known as the author of the Mapp and Lucia series.[1][2] The structure is broadly similar to that series, featuring two strong-willed women battling for social supremacy in the fictitious Durham Square in Edwardian London.
Margaret Mantrip is the queen bee of a garden square in London, reigning over the various inhabitants. When Susan Leg, a mysterious new resident arrives, it threatens to upset her carefully-ordered world. Little known to her is the fact that the newcomer is secretly the author of a series of trashy but bestselling novels under the pen name Rudolph Da Vinci.
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- Masters, Brian. The Life of E. F. Benson. Chatto & Windus, 1991.
- Palmer, Geoffrey & Lloyd, Noel. E. F. Benson - As He Was. Lennard, 1988.
- Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.
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